Sarah Monette

Sarah Elizabeth Monette (born November 25, 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer, mostly in the genres of fantasy and horror. Under the name Katherine Addison, she published the fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor, which received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Sarah Monette
Monette at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo in 2014
Born	(1974-11-25) November 25, 1974 (age 50) Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.[1]
Pen name	Katherine Addison
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Education	Case Western Reserve University University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD)
Genre	Speculative fiction
Notable works	Mélusine, The Goblin Emperor
Notable awards	2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Award, 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Website
www.sarahmonette.com

Early life

Monette was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on November 25, 1974.^[2] She began writing at the age of 12.^[3]

Monette studied Classics, English, and French at Case Western Reserve University and graduated summa cum laude in 1996. She received her master's degree in 1997 and her Ph.D. in 2004, both in English literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[2][4] She specialized in Renaissance Drama and writing her dissertation on ghosts in English Renaissance revenge tragedy.^[5]

Career

Monette won the Spectrum Award in 2003 for her short story "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland".^[6] Her first novel Mélusine was published by Ace Books in August 2005, earning starred reviews in Publishers Weekly^[7] and Booklist and a place in Locus's Recommended Reading list for 2005.^[8] The sequel, The Virtu, followed in July 2006, also earning starred reviews and making Locus's Recommended Reading lists for 2006.^[9]

Her short stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Alchemy, Postscripts, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other venues, and have received four Honorable Mentions from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link. Her poem "Night Train: Heading West" appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX, and a story she co-wrote with Elizabeth Bear, "The Ile of Dogges", appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, in 2007.

In 2007, she donated her archives to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.^[10]

Her 2014 novel The Goblin Emperor was published under the pseudonym Katherine Addison.^[11] The novel received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Awards

Sources:^[12][13]

Year	Work	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2003	"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"	Gaylactic Spectrum Awards	Short Story	Won
2006	Mélusine	Crawford Award	—	Shortlisted
		James Tiptree Jr. Award	—	Shortlisted
		John W. Campbell Award	—	Shortlisted
		Locus Award	First Novel	Nominated—7th
		SF Site Readers Poll	SF/Fantasy Book	Nominated—9th
2007	A Companion to Wolves	Lambda Literary Award	Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror	Shortlisted
	Mélusine	John W. Campbell Award	—	Shortlisted
	The Virtu	Gaylactic Spectrum Awards	Novel	Shortlisted
		Locus Award	Fantasy Novel	Nominated—17th
2008	The Bone Key	Shirley Jackson Award	Collection	Shortlisted
2009	"Boojum"	Locus Award	Short Story	Nominated—3rd
2010	"Mongoose"	Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated—11th
	"White Charles"	Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated—35th
2011	"After the Dragon"	Locus Award	Short Story	Nominated—14th
		WSFA Small Press Award	—	Shortlisted
2012	Somewhere Beneath Those Waves	Locus Award	Collection	Nominated—15th
2012	The Tempering of Men	David Gemmell Award	Legend Award	Preliminary Nominee
2013	"Blue Lace Agate"	Locus Award	Short Story	Nominated—26th
	"The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward""	Locus Award	Novelette	Nominated—12th
2014	The Goblin Emperor	Goodreads Choice Awards	Fantasy	Nominated—16th	[14]
		Nebula Award	Novel	Shortlisted	[15]
2015		Hugo Award	Novel	Shortlisted	[16]
		Locus Award	Fantasy Novel	Won	[17]
		World Fantasy Award	Novel	Shortlisted	[18]
		RUSA CODES Reading List	Fantasy	Won
2022	The Witness for the Dead	Hugo Award	Novel	Nomination Below Cutoff
2023	The Goblin Emperor	Hugo Award	Series	Nomination Below Cutoff
	The Grief of Stones	Locus Award	Fantasy Novel	Nominated

Bibliography

Novels

Doctrine of Labyrinths series

• —— (2005). Mélusine (hardcover 1st ed.). New York: Ace Books. pp. 1–432. ISBN 9780441012862.
• —— (2006). The Virtu (hardcover 1st ed.). New York: Ace Books. pp. 1–439. ISBN 9780441014040.
• —— (2007). The Mirador (hardcover 1st ed.). New York: Ace Books. pp. 1–426. ISBN 9780441015009.
• —— (2009). Corambis (hardcover 1st ed.). New York: Ace Books. pp. 1–421. ISBN 9780441015962.

Iskryne series

• ——; Bear, Elizabeth (2007). A Companion to Wolves (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–302. ISBN 9780765318169.
• ——; Bear, Elizabeth (2011). The Tempering of Men (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–304. ISBN 9780765324702.
• ——; Bear, Elizabeth (2015). An Apprentice to Elves (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–336. ISBN 9780765324719.

The Chronicles of Osreth

Published as Katherine Addison

• —— (2014). The Goblin Emperor (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–446. ISBN 9780765326997.
• —— (2025). The Orb of Cairado (hardcover ed.). Subterranean Press. pp. 1–120. ISBN 9781645242130.

Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy

Published as Katherine Addison, set in the same world as The Goblin Emperor

• —— (2021). The Witness for the Dead (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–240. ISBN 9780765387424.
• —— (2022). The Grief of Stones (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–249. ISBN 9781250813893.
• —— (2025). The Tomb of Dragons (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–352. ISBN 9781250816191.

Stand-alone novels

Published as Katherine Addison

• —— (2020). The Angel of the Crows (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–448. ISBN 9780765387394.

Collections

• The Bone Key (Prime Books, 2007)
• Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (Prime Books, 2011)

Short fiction

Kyle Murchison Booth

• "The Wall of Clouds" (Alchemy Magazine 1, December 2003)
• "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" (Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7, May 2004)
• "The Venebretti Necklace" (Alchemy Magazine 2, September 2004)
• "Bringing Helena Back" (All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 35, February 2004)
• "The Green Glass Paperweight" (Tales of the Unanticipated 25, August 2004)
• "Wait for Me" (Naked Snake Online, September 2004)
• "Elegy for a Demon Lover" (Tales of the Unanticipated 26, October 2005)
• "Drowning Palmer" (All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society 41, February 2006)
• "The Bone Key" (SAY... What's the Combination?, May 2007)
• "Listening to Bone" (The Bone Key, Prime Books, 2007)
• "The World Without Sleep" (Postscripts, Spring 2008)
• "The Yellow Dressing Gown" (Weird Tales, March 2008)
• "The Replacement" (The Willows, September 2008)
• "White Charles" (Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2009)
• "Unnatural Creatures" (Unnatural Creatures, self-published, 2011)^[19]
• "To Die for Moonlight" (Apex Magazine, July 2013)
• "The Testimony of Dragon's Teeth" (Uncanny Magazine, March 2018)
• "The Haunting of Dr. Claudius Winterson" (Uncanny Magazine, January 2022)
• "A Theory of Haunting" (SOLARIS, 2023)

Boojum

• "Boojum" (with Elizabeth Bear) (Fast Ships, Black Sails, eds. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books, 2008)
• "Mongoose" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2009)
• "The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2012)

Shadow Unit Episodes^[20]

• 1.03 "Dexterity"
• 1.05 "Ballistic" (with Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and Amanda Downum)
• 3.00 "On Faith"
• 4.03 "Hope Is Stronger Than Love"

Other short fiction

• "Three Letters from the Queen of Elflands" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #11, November 2002)
• "Queen of Swords Archived 2007-11-21 at the Wayback Machine" (Alienskin Magazine #2.4, November 2003)
• "Sidhe Tigers" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #13, November 2003)
• "Straw Archived 2007-11-03 at the Wayback Machine" (Strange Horizons #28, June 2004)
• "The Half-Sister" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #15, January 2005)
• "The Séance at Chisholm End" (Alchemy Magazine #3, January 2006)
• "A Gift of Wings" The Queen in Winter Ace Books, 2006
• "The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear) (Aeon #7, May 2006)
• "A Night in Electric Squidland" (Lone Star Stories #15, June 2006)
• "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" (Tales of the Unanticipated #27, July 2006)
• "National Geographic on Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West" (Fictitious Force #2, July 2006)
• "Draco campestris Archived 2007-10-24 at the Wayback Machine" (Strange Horizons, August 7, 2006)
• "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day" (Ideomancer 5.3, September 2006)
• "A Light in Troy" (Clarkesworld Magazine #1, October 2006)
• "Amante Dorée" (Paradox Magazine #10, Winter 2006/07)
• "The Watcher in the Corners" (author's blog, Notes from the Labyrinth, April 23, 2007)
• "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home" (Fantasy Magazine, July 2007)
• "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow" (Lone Star Stories #22, August 1, 2007)
• "Festival Lives, View 3: All God's Chillun Got Wings" (2008)
• "Darkness, as a Bride" (Cemetery Dance #58, February 2008)
• "Fiddleback Ferns" (Flytrap #9, June 2008)
• "Night Train: Heading West" (poem) (The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, August 2008)
• "Last Drink Bird Head" (2009)
• "After the Dragon" (Fantasy Magazine, January 2010)
• "Ashes, Ashes" (All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society, 2011)
• "No Man's Land" (Fictitious Force, 2011)
• "The Devil in Gaylord's Creek" (2011)
• "Why Do You Linger?" (2011)
• "Absent from Felicity" (Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, 2011)
• "Impostors" (Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, 2011)
• "Blue Lace Agate" (2012)
• "Coyote Gets His Own Back" (2012)
• "The Half-Life of Angels" (2015)
• "Learning to See Dragons" (2017)
• "National Geographic on Assignment: The Unicorn Enclosure" (2017)
• "The Oracle of Abbey Road (Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night)" (2018)